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Google Fiber Coming to Kansas City, Kansas

On March 30, 2011, Google announced that, after careful consideration of over 1,100 cities, Kansas City, Kansas was selected to be the pilot city for its Fiber for Communities project.

The company announced, at Wyandotte High School, that it had entered a partnership with the city to build an ultra high-speed network in Kansas City, KS, and that it would work with local organizations, businesses and universities to bring a next-generation web experience to the community.

Once in place, the Google ultra high-speed fiber network will have the capacity to provide the community with internet access more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today.

Google plans to offer the ultra high-speed service to the Kansas City, KS community in the first half of 2012.

News Feed items from the Google Fiber Blog are below. More information about this exciting project will be added to this section of WycoWest.com, as it becomes available.

Google Fiber Blog News Feed

A Construction Update
Google Fiber Blog 04 Apr 2012 03:57 am

A few weeks ago we announced that we’d started hanging fiber on utility poles throughout Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO. Construction is now in full swing and our crews have already hung over 100 miles of fiber! To get a better idea of how our build has been going so far, I sat down with John Toccalino, a manager on our fiber project and asked him a few questions. Q: So, John, first can you give a quick explanation about how Google Fiber will work? A: Sure. Here’s a basic diagram of our network. As you...

A different kind of fiber
Google Fiber Blog 31 Mar 2012 20:02 pm

Since we announced Google Fiber, we have heard a lot of rumors that we’ve been building a fiber optic network that would deliver Internet speeds 100 times faster than what most Americans have today, and while we are humbled by these speculations, we have focused our efforts on developing a different kind of fiber, Google Fiber. At Google, we push the limits of technology to improve our users’ lives. As we started thinking about fiber, we realized that there hadn’t been real innovation in the fiber world in a very long time. Although we push our bodies to do...

Kansas City is Fiber-Ready!
Google Fiber Blog 05 Feb 2012 23:00 pm

We’ve measured utility poles; we’ve studied maps and surveyed neighborhoods; we’ve come up with a comprehensive set of detailed engineering plans; and we’ve eaten way too much barbecue. Now, starting today, we’re ready to lay fiber. As we build out Google Fiber, we’ll be taking thousands of miles of cables and stretching them across Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Each cable contains many thin glass fibers, each about the width of a human hair. We’ll be taking these cables and weaving them into a fiber backbone—a completely new high speed infrastructure that will...

Happy Holidays from Google Fiber
Google Fiber Blog 25 Dec 2011 04:00 am

Posted by Kevin Lo, General Manager, Google Access As 2011 draws to a close, we want to thank Google Fiber enthusiasts for such a great year. We hope you have a very happy holiday season, and we wish you the best for 2012!

It’s been a few months since we announced that Google Fiber is coming to Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO. After getting to know the community and starting work on the fiber infrastructure, we can’t wait to see what the region will do with ultra high-speed broadband! While it will still be awhile until Google Fiber is actually in homes and businesses, now is the time to get Kansas Citians ready for the benefits of high-speed Internet. One of the best ways to do this is to help small businesses get a website, find new customers, and...

Boots on the Ground in Kansas City
Google Fiber Blog 25 Jul 2011 07:05 am

If you’re in Kansas City in the next few weeks, you may notice a few engineers walking around, consulting maps and surveying your street or neighborhood. These engineers are kicking off the next phase of Google Fiber—detail engineering. There’s still a lot of work to do before we can offer ultra high-speed broadband to Kansas City in early 2012. The detail engineering phase will help us gather the geographical information we need to build the Google Fiber network later this year. Many of the engineers working with us are Kansas City residents who are already generally familiar with...

Last week we posted some of the top questions and answers from our recent town hall event. As promised, here’s part two –Q: What type of direct economic impact will this project have on residents of Kansas City?A: This will be different from any broadband deployment that has ever been done before, so it’s difficult to predict or calculate an exact economic impact. That said, we strongly believe that this type of infrastructure will give the Kansas City region a competitive advantage over areas across the country, and that this advanced connectivity will attract entrepreneurs,...

Earlier this spring I had the pleasure of meeting with hundreds of members of the Kansas City, Kansas, community at a town hall meeting, where I answered some questions about our project. It was a great conversation, and as a follow-up I wanted to post some of the top questions and answers from the event.Below you’ll find some of the most commonly asked questions about Google Fiber. We’ll be posting a second round of responses next week. In the meantime, feel free to send your questions to kansascity-fiber@google.com – we’ll do our best to respond as soon as...

Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri!I’m here this morning to announce that Google’s ultra high-speed broadband service is coming to the City of Fountains – Kansas City, Missouri. In March we were on the other side of the river, announcing plans to bring ultra high-speeds to Kansas City, Kansas. We promised that would be the start – not the end – of our efforts, and we’re thrilled to be able to take this next step and expand the project to the broader region. Residents of both KCMO and KCK will have access to our service starting in 2012.We’ll be...

Today we’re taking the wraps off our new Google Fiber Blog, which we hope will become your first stop for the latest news from the team working to deliver ultra high-speed broadband.In the coming weeks and months, we’ll offer up posts on what we’re up to in Kansas City, who we are, and how we think about broadband infrastructure. We also plan to share more on what we learn from you – including what applications you want to see and how you think gigabit speeds will change the way you use the web. We want this blog to be...

(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog.)As part of our overall goal to make the web better for users, last year we announced a new project: to provide a community with Internet access more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today. The response was overwhelming—nearly 1,100 cities felt the need for speed—and we were thrilled by the enthusiasm we saw across the country for better and faster web connections. Thank you to every community and individual that submitted a response, joined a rally, starred in a YouTube video or otherwise participated.After a careful review,...

An update on Google Fiber
Google Fiber Blog 15 Dec 2010 05:04 am

(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog.)Earlier this year we announced an experiment we hope will help make Internet access better and faster for everyone: to provide a community with ultra high-speed broadband, 100 times faster than what most people have access to today.This week I joined Google as vice president of Access Services to oversee the Google Fiber team. Over the past several months I’ve been following the progress the team has already made—from experimenting with new fiber deployment technologies here on Google’s campus, to announcing a “beta” network to 850 homes at Stanford—and I’m excited...

Google Fiber News Headlines

Will Cable Execs Embrace Their Adversaries At Next Week's Trade Show? - Deadline.com
topic:google_fiber - Google News 18 May 2012 12:55 pm

Will Cable Execs Embrace Their Adversaries At Next Week's Trade Show?Deadline.comIn addition, Google is sending at least two execs. Hard to imagine that they'd get a warm welcome as their company prepares its Google Fiber test in Kansas City; the company is building a state-of-the-art fiber optic network capable of transmitting ...and more »

Google delays its schedule for high-speed serviceKansas City StarThat timetable shifted, and recently Google was promising to run fiberoptic lines to homes and offer service to some neighborhoods by the end of June. Now Google Inc. is adjusting its promises again. “We'll have an announcement about Google Fiber this ...KCTV 5Google's KCK launch faces another delayKCTV Kansas CityGoogle's KCK Launch Faces Another DelayKMBC Kansas Cityall 13 news articles »

Kansas City Area Development Council Ranked a Top 10 Economic Development ...MarketWatch (press release)The article emphasizes Google's selection of Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., out of 1100 cities across the country for its first high-speed data service, Google Fiber, estimated to be a half billion dollar investment.and more »

Does Faster Internet Access Lure Piracy?PCWorldThe Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)'s concern is Google Fiber, Google's high-speed fiber-optic broadband that the company is currently deploying in Kansas City. Google has already laid down more than 100 miles of Fiber in Kansas City, ...and more »

Google Network Shows Hollywood Trap: Between Fiddlers and FranklinHuffington PostBloomberg BusinessWeek broke the story of the latest chapter in a long saga, as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) admitted it feared the arrival of Google's high-speed network in Kansas City. The headline is instructive: "Google Fiber in ...

Who needs Google Fiber? Orono, Maine, getting 1Gbps broadband networkNetwork WorldU initiative that was launched last summer that aims to hook up several university towns across the United States with fiber networks capable of going toe-to-toe with the fiber network currently being built by Google in Kansas City.and more »

Silicon Prairie News Paul Kedrosky touts merits of 'waste' in latest Google Fiber talk (Video)Silicon Prairie Newsbased Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, conveyed to a lunchtime crowd on April 18 in the third installment of the Kauffman Foundation's Google Fiber Speaker Series. Kedrosky even suggested a rallying cry behind which a wasteful Kansas City could soon ...

Google Fiber's fast Internet speeds worry HollywoodSan Francisco ChronicleThe project could also foreshadow dramatic changes for Hollywood, both because of the specter of piracy and Google's possible experiments with new ways to distribute content legally. Google has already strung more than 100 miles of fiber-optic cable ...and more »

Big Content eyes Google Fiber deployment in Kansas City warilyArs TechnicaBy Cyrus Farivar | Published April 27, 2012 4:29 PM While the search giant has been a bit reticent to offer details about what precisely the level of service will be, who will have access to it, and how much it will cost, one thing remains clear: fiber ...and more »

Google Fiber in Kansas City Makes Hollywood NervousBusinessWeekGoogle has already strung more than 100 miles of fiber-optic cable along utility poles in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., and expects to connect its first homes in the next few months, says Google Fiber spokeswoman Jenna Wandres.and more »

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